ARCast with Ron Jacobs

Keeping up on the latest trends in architecture is hard. With new products and technologies constantly flowing from Microsoft you need someone who can cut through the fluff and get to the bottom line. Someone who understands what you are thinking… someone who can tell a good joke.

Join your host Ron Jacobs and guests from product teams, Microsoft customers and partners as Ron takes on the tough topics with an attitude.

Have you ever wished that someone would just tell you how to build the thing you want to build? Like one of those do-it-yourself furniture projects? Well if you are building a Smart Client application the patterns & practices team has just what you need
in the Smart Client Baseline…

You have an identity... yes, you do. In fact you have multiple identities. Think of the many accounts you have on domains, networks, websites and on and on the list goes. For many years the world has operated by a simple set of rules around identity
but now things are changing in a big way with…

Now that the big game is over (almost – just need to ship Entlib now) Ron sat down for a quick chat with Scott Densmore and Tom Hollander to ask them to peer into the crystal ball and predict Enterprise Library futures as well as other potential application
blocks and libraries. Plus the…

Enterprise Library 1.x was the smash hit of 2005 with over 200K downloads. With an all new platform in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 can Enterprise Library repeat this Cinderalla story in 2006? Ron discusses the core architecture of the newest release
of Enterprise Library (version 2.0) with…

Topic Maps describe a way in which complex relationships between abstract concepts and real-world resources can be described and interchanged using a standard XML syntax. If that sounds like something you don’t need to know about… think again. In this
episode Ron gets down to practical…

Enterprise Library 1.x was the smash hit of 2005 with over 200K downloads. With an all new platform in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 can Enterprise Library repeat this Cinderalla story in 2006? Ron discusses the core architecture of the newest release
of Enterprise Library (version 2.0) with…

Imagine having to deploy a mission critical smart client application to over 50,000 desktops in a global organization like Microsoft. In this episode of ArcTalk Ron Jacobs discusses with Eric Leonard and Krishna Padisetty of Microsoft IT the challenges
and lessons learned in taking HeadTrax…

Transactions have long been the domain of the database but what if you could transact virtually any resource in your application? How would that change the architecture and design of the systems you are building? Well get ready because Windows Vista includes
a powerful new transaction…

Sure who doesn’t want to have a software factory? But maybe you have been thinking that the concept is so abstract you don’t know if it can help you or not. Join us as your ArcTalk host Ron Jacobs discusses
the design and implementation of a software factory for the Health Level Seven (HL7)…

What’s all the fuss with DSL and Software Factories about? Join me, your host for all thing architecture, Ron Jacobs, and my special guest Steve Cook architect for the Enterprise Frameworks and Tools team as we discuss software factories, domain specific
languages and what this means for you.…